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SOURCE: ANTENA M -AUTHOR: M.J. GDNUS
Danilo Mandić (35), a resident of Podgorica, suspected of attempting to murder Darko Perović and Aris Turković, blocked their path with an official car of the Parliament of Montenegro before wounding the two fellow citizens, confirmed to Vijesti from several sources.
According to their information, the vehicle in question is a Range Rover, registered to the Parliament of Montenegro.
Mandić is the nephew and bodyguard of the President of the Parliament Andrija Mandić.
After being questioned at the Podgorica Higher State Prosecutor's Office, he was ordered to be detained for up to 72 hours.
He surrendered to the Podgorica police last night, accompanied by a lawyer.
"The suspect D.M. was questioned on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of attempted aggravated murder and a decision was made to detain him for up to 72 hours," the Higher Prosecutor's Office told the ETV Portal.
The police announced earlier today that they had solved the case of attempted murder against two people and that they had arrested the suspect.
"D.M. is suspected of blocking the path of the injured parties with his vehicle on April 19th, at the intersection of Marka Miljanova Street and Bulevar Ivana Crnojevića Street, after they had left a restaurant. After the injured parties had left their vehicle, D.M. fired several shots at them, causing injuries to the legs, after which he left the scene. By taking criminal and police-prosecutorial measures and actions, D.M. was identified in a short time, who voluntarily entered the premises of the Podgorica Security Department, after which he was deprived of his liberty on suspicion of having committed the aforementioned criminal acts," the police announced.
According to the ETV portal, Danilo Mandić is considered a person of interest to security and has been arrested several times. He was handcuffed in 2021 on the warrant after the police found a gun on him during a raid in a Podgorica bar.
In August 2020, he threatened P.K. and his friend F.F. with a gun in the Podgorica bar "Riter", who managed to take the gun from Mandić's hands and hand it over to the cafe security. After that, Mandić was on the run.
Investigators determined that the 7.65 mm "frans polis" gun was registered to a third person, the godfather of Andrija Mandić, who, as stated in a statement to the police, gave it to him several years ago.
Pobjeda previously wrote that, during the interrogation, Andrija Mandić confirmed to the police that he personally took the gun from his godfather, that he did not report it, and that he kept the gun in his house in Zagorič, and then handed the gun over to his nephew Danilo.
